If you love Christmas lights and incredible decorations, then a trip to Longwood Gardens should be on your list this time of year.

The Kennett Square botanical garden is hosting its Christmas experience until Jan. 5.

Longwood Christmas, an indoor and outdoor experience, includes everything from poinsettias to pinecones to snowflakes. It takes more than a year to design Longwood Christmas, according to officials at Longwood Gardens. More than 200 people – staff, students, and volunteers – led by 25 different project leaders work all year long planning, preparing and making unique ornaments.

Longwood has a collection of more than 55,000 ornaments in more than 600 different styles. It is illuminated with more than 500,000 Christmas lights on more than 100 trees.

More than 15,000 potted holiday plants are used in the Christmas displays; 4,800 of them were grown in the production greenhouses, including more than 900 poinsettias.

Longwood Gardens opened its Christmas celebration to the public for the first time in 1957 and says more than 400,000 guests visit the gardens every holiday season.

Tickets range from $16 to $30 and can be purchased in advance at longwoodgardens.org. Each of the tickets has a designated arrival time on it. Longwood Gardens is at 1001 Longwood Road in East Marlborough Township near Kennett Square in Chester County.

The Exhibition Hall features a handcrafted 400-foot long ribbon entwined with giant ornaments nestled among a forest of trees culminating in a towering Christmas tree decorated in red, gold, and silver ornaments.

The Music Room, an upscale confectionery shop is decorated for the holidays featuring two 18-foot Fraser firs dripping in pastel Christmas candy. In a collaboration with Shane’s Confectionary in Philadelphia, the Music Room showcases vintage candy molds and clear toy candies. The “front counter” is filled with horticulturally themed chocolates, lollipops, and cookies.

The East Conservatory boasts a 24-foot tall white fir. The Rose House features a tree decked out in more than 150 poinsettias as handcrafted chandeliers glow from above.

In the ballroom, an 18-foot Fraser fir features crystal ornaments fashioned in shapes reminiscent of the crystals found in the 90-year-old chandeliers that are located in the room. Thousands of poinsettias, amaryllis, and other floral finery fill the conservatory. The room will also have wreaths fashioned from everything from orchids to succulents.

Longwood’s ballroom hosts free and ticketed holiday-inspired performances as well as daily carol sing-alongs performed on Longwood’s grand 10,010-pipe organ throughout the season.

In the outdoor gardens, there are more than 500,000 lights on 150 trees. The displays this year include dancing lights. The towering trees bordering the large lake are the backdrop for a repeating illuminated light show set to holiday music classics.

In the Open Air Theatre, fountains will dance day and night to holiday music. The outdoor train display travels past miniature Longwood landmarks illuminated for the holiday season. The 380-foot-long model train display features miniature versions of the garden’s Webb Barn, conservatory and fountain. In order to set everything up, gardeners work for nearly three weeks in order to build the tracks, “miniscape” the scenery with shrubs and grasses and sculpt the mulch that the display sits on, according to garden officials.

Longwood’s historic Chimes Tower will play holiday music every half-hour.